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A report read out at the meeting states: “The city council has informed the residents’ association that sale terms have been agreed on the former Goldenhill Golf Course to an organisation based in Birmingham, whose intention it is to return it to its former use, including a driving range.

“The council says there is still some work on site required with the footpaths and this should be completed within the next three months.

“It is now anticipated that the land sale should be completed by April this year.”

Travellers on the former Goldenhill golf course

City councillor Martin Garner, who represents the Goldenhill and Sandyford ward, said: “The sale is very near to completion. It has taken so long because of some of the conditions the potential new owner wants the council to make.

“One of them is to make the perimeter of the golf course more secure. The new owner wasn’t happy with the amount of trespass still taking place on the golf course. There are some rights of way that have to be amended.”

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Mr Garner has asked for some of the money raised from the sale to be spent in Goldenhill. He added: “At the moment the answer is no - I’m very disappointed by this. Even if it was just half the money it would keep this community centre going for five years.”

The city council reclaimed the 120-acre golf course, off Mobberley Road, from Jack Barker’s Golf Company in 2011, and it has remained out of use ever since.

SAGE secretary Tom Simpson, speaking after the meeting, said: “For about seven or eight years it has lain empty and we have had vandalism, off road bikes and travellers going on, so we’re in support to get this golf course back and bringing it back into use.

“It has been going on for a long time. In the past people wanted it to be a nature reserve.”